# Archive-tar-external 1.2.0

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/archive-tar-external-1-2-0/57182>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [April 7, 2006, 6:51pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/archive-tar-external-1-2-0/57182 "2006-04-07T18:51:25Z")\
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**Author:** ![danielb](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/c57346/32.png) [@danielb](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/danielb)\
**Post date:** [April 7, 2006, 6:51pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/archive-tar-external-1-2-0/57182/1 "2006-04-07T18:51:25Z")

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Hi all,

I pleased to announce the release of archive-tar-external 1.2.0. This  
project  
was formerly known as archive-tarsimple. In the interests of  
consistency, as  
well as continued good relations between the U.S. and Canada and general  
Interstellar Harmony, The package, as well as the internal class, have  
been  
renamed.

# What is it?

A simple wrapper for external system calls to deal with tarballs and  
zipped/gzip’d/bzip’d files.

# What’s new?

The package name on the RAA is now tar-external.  
The package name on RubyForge is now archive-tar-external.  
The base class is now Tar::External (nested under the Archive module).

In addition to the naming changes, there are two new class methods and  
one new  
instance method:

Tar::External.uncompress\_archive - For those times you want to  
uncompress an  
archive that already exists.

Tar::External.extract\_archive - For those times you want to untar a  
tarball  
that already exists.

Tar::External#compressed\_archive\_name= - For those times you want to  
create a  
new Tar::External object from an archive that already exists.

See the docs for more details on these methods.

# Why the name change?

It was pointed out to me that not only was the naming scheme  
inconsistent,  
using Archive::Tar might cause potential name clashes. That, and it  
wasn’t  
really clear from the name that this isn’t a wrapper for zlib.

Hopefully this will not cause folks too much grief. Based on the  
download  
stats I’ve seen on RubyForge…I doubt it. 😉

# Where is it?

You can get it on the RAA or RubyForge (under the ‘shards’ project).

Enjoy!

Dan